• Optical Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.22-28
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• 2015

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2022

Traditional centralized radio access network architecture used for 4G is based on Option 8, a functional split between PHY and RF. This option is commonly used with a fronthaul interface based on common public radio interface (CPRI) specifications; however, the increased data rates in 5G make this option impractical because of the fronthaul interface's high bandwidth requirement. Since CPRI specifications have many vendor-specific options, achieving multi-vendor interoperability becomes challenging. Open RAN (O-RAN) Alliance is developing novel open fronthaul interface specifications based on the functional split Option 7-2x, one of the intra-PHY split options, to relax the bandwidth requirement of the fronthaul interface and achieve multi-vendor interoperability. This article provides a brief overview of the various functional split options for 5G fronthaul that have been reported so far and existing fronthaul technologies. Further, the technological trends in the 5G open fronthaul interface is discussed, focusing on the O-RAN Alliance specifications under standardization.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.23-32
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• 2022

This paper provides an overview of optical transport technology for 5G mobile fronthaul. The configuration of fronthaul network is classified with dedicated fiber, passive WDM(Wavelength Division Multiplexing), active WDM, and semi-active WDM, which has its own advantages and drawbacks. Various WDM technology is applied for fronthaul transport, depending on the wavelength bands, required number of wavelength channels, configuration of fronthaul network, etc. In order to meet the increasing transport capacity, a 50/100 Gbps optical transceiver will be used in place of the present 10/25 Gbps technology. Trends will be continued to enhance the flexibility and reliability of the fronthaul optical network supporting highly advanced 5G mobile services.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.22-27
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• 2020

With the deployment of 5G infrastructure, content delivery network (CDN) will be a key role to provide explosive growing services for the independent media and YouTube which contain high-speed mobile contents. Without a local cache, the mobile backhaul and fronthaul should endure huge burden of bandwidth request for users as the increase number of direct accesses from contents providers. To deal with this issue, this paper fist presents both fronthaul solutions for CDN that use dark fibers and a passive optical network (PON). On top of that, we propose the aggregated content request specialized for PON caching and evaluate and compare its performance to legacy schemes through the simulation. The proposed PON caching scheme can reduce average access time of up to 0.5 seconds, 1/n received request packets, and save 60% of backhaul bandwidth compared to the no caching scheme. This work can be a useful reference for service providers and will be extended to further improve the hit ratio of cache in the future.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.26-30
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• 2016

In this paper, an inter-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) sub-carrier distortion due to fiber chromatic dispersion is investigated. The fiber chromatic dispersion induces phase difference among OFDM sub-carriers, resulting in non-symmetric peak to average power ratio (PAPR) inducing inter-OFDM distortion. Experiments to confirm the fiber dispersion are performed in a direct-detection optical front-haul link. Quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) encoded OFDM symbols at 25 Gbit/s are transmitted over 100 km fiber and the resulting error vector magnitude (EVM) of 40 % is observed.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.49-53
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• 2015

본고에서는 4G/5G/WiFi 무선 통신의 C-RAN(Centralized/Cloud Radio Access Network)을 지원하는 xhaul망에서의 이더넷 응용 기술에 대해 분석한다. xhaul에서의 요구사항을 고찰하고, 이를 충족시키기 위한 이더넷 응용으로서 RoE(Radio over Ethernet)을 중심으로 한 기술 분석과 함께, 그 외 프론트홀 전송 기술을 알아봄으로써, xhaul에서의 이더넷의 응용과 더불어 기타 차세대 무선 망 기술과 함께 유무선 융합 전송 기술에 대한 방향을 타진해 보도록 한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.21-30
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• 2016

4차 산업혁명을 견인하는 ICT 인프라 기술로 네트워크의 지능화가 진행될 것으로 예측되어 유무선가입자용 광부품 또한 시스템 혹은 플랫폼 구현을 위해 요구되는 기능을 제공할 수 있어야 한다. 이를 수용하기 위해 유선망 광부품으로 사용되는 10G 및 25G 기반의 광원기술과 채널확장을 통한 40G 및 100G 구현 등 차세대 유무선가입자망에 핵심적으로 활용될 가능성이 높은 광부품의 국내외 기술개발동향, 산업동향 및 표준화 동향을 기술하고자 한다. 또한, 5G 이동통신용 프론트홀 통신에서 요구되는 CWDM용 광원기술을 중심으로 국내외 발전방향과 표준화 현황을 소개한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.97-106
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• 2017

The introduction of new access technologies in 5G radio networks has had a considerable impact on the design of transport networks. Research activities are underway on new transport technologies in both the wireless and optical domains to support 5G transport. This paper provides an overview of the concept and requirements of a fronthaul. We also discuss the research activities of a new fronthaul interface for future 5G networks, a 5G integrated fronthaul/backhaul transport network (5G-Crosshaul), a next-generation fronthaul interface (NGFI), a mobile xhaul network (MXN), and a next-generation mobile fronthaul architecture with multi-IF carrier transmission scheme.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.59-69
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• 2016

4G 대비 50배 이상의 최대 전송률, 1Gbps 이상의 사용자 체감 전송율, $10TB/s/km^2$의 단위 면적당 트래픽 용량, 1ms 이내의 전송 지연, $10^7/km^2$ 고연결 밀도 등의 핵심 성능 지표를 목표로 5G 기술 연구개발이 진행되고 있다. 5G 성능 지표의 달성을 위해 스펙트럼 효율을 증가시키는 무선 전송 기술, 유연성 있는 스펙트럼 사용 기술, 초고주파 대역 활용 전송 기술, 밀집 소형셀 기술 등의 신기술이 무선 액세스망에 적용되고 있으나, 백홀, 미드홀 그리고 프론트홀 등의 전달망 구간에도 높은 데이터 전송률과 매우 낮은 지연 시간을 제공할 새로운 해결책이 요구된다. 본고에서는 다양한 링크 전송 기술과 SDN/NFV를 수용하면서 패킷 스위칭 통합 망을 향해 연구되고 있는 5G 전달망 기술동향을 기술한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.3-9
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a Radio over Fiber system for small cell applications and for mobile fronthaul networks supporting cloud-radio access networks(RAN). We built a system with a downlink employing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) techniques and an uplink using single carrier-frequency multiple access(SC-FDMA). System parameters are evaluated for various subcarrier modulations and the results of link performance measurements are analyzed.